After more than a year spent in dry-dock for repairs at a Houma shipyard, the USS Kidd will be lowered back into the water on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, with the ultimate goal of returning to Baton Rouge early next year, the USS Kidd Veterans Museum announced Thursday.

Over the last 14 months, the deteriorated hull of the World War II destroyer was replaced with new steel at the Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors shipyard in the Port of Terrebonne, located off the Houma Navigation Canal.

The USS Kidd is expected to return to its spot on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge during the river's next high-water cycle, expected next spring.

"It is especially fitting that the USS Kidd will start a new phase of her story on this year’s Veterans Day," the museum said in a news release.

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